Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

[William Blunn]

> I was using Microsoft Outlook Express, which does not support 
> format=flowed.

Turns out this is not entirely true.

Outlook Express *does* have some support for format=flowed, but not as much 
as Thunderbird.

Using the default setting of "Encode Text Using" = "None" (as opposed to 
"quoted-printable"), it will generate messages with format=flowed, and it 
will happily re-flow quoted replies so that they fit into the 78 (or 
whatever) columns.

However, it does not re-flow format=flowed messages for display, which kind 
of wastes half of the point of format=flowed.  I think this may be linked to 
the fact that it doesn't do anything clever with the way is displays quoted 
messages; you just see the original ">" characters.

Thunderbird *does* re-flow format=flowed messages for display, and quoted 
messages are shown using quote bars.

So Outlook Express with the default settings would be list-friendly but not 
user-friendly.

But Thunderbird is list-friendly *and* user-friendly.

(This message will be sent using Outlook Express with the default settings. 
It'll be interesting to see how it appears in the resultant e-mail, and also 
in the list web archive.)

Bill 
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